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Modified human crania provide evidence for a new form of Neolithic skull cult
- diodorus 9y agoIn case the linked article is behind a paywall for some, there's a shorter write up in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/28/turkish-site-evidence-of-neolithic-skull-cult-gobekli-tepe https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/28/turkish-site...
- Cozumel 9y agoThis is HN, link to the actual paper http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/6/e1700564.full http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/6/e1700564.full and to the researchers own site https://tepetelegrams.wordpress.com/ https://tepetelegrams.wordpress.com/ There is ZERO reason to link to some site regurgitating a press release, even if it is the Guardian.
- crawfordcomeaux 9y agoIf we create a modern skull cult involving Elon Musk's neural lace, how will future archaeologists refer to it? An Anthropocenic skull cult?
- model_Citizen 9y agoThese are posthumously modified ornamental skulls, carved and painted after death maybe for funerary purposes, not skulls re-shaped during infancy, for weirdo flattened head shapes among the living.
- crawfordcomeaux 9y agoThanks for clarifying! My question still stands, even though people consider it offtopic.
- smoyer 9y agoOh no ... here come the ancient-astronaut conspiracy theorists.
- markwaldron 9y agoVery interesting subject, similar to how researchers say the Egyptians elongated their skulls. Also, Neolithic Skull Cult sounds like a great band name
- mirimir 9y agoNot really. They just drilled holes (presumably after death) to hang them, like Christmas ornaments. Or maybe they were percussion instruments.